THE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PATH (ORP) Presentation to Portfolio Committee : 22 August 2006

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THE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PATH
(ORP)Presentation to Portfolio Committee 22
August 2006
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Content

• Acronyms
• Introduction
• What is the ORP
• Breaking the Cycle of Crime
• Outlining the ORP
• ORP The Process
• Benefits
• Progress
• Challenges

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Acronyms

• ORP Offender Rehabilitation Path
• CAT Comprehensive Assessment Team
• CIT Correctional Intervention Team
• CRT Case Review Team
• CMC Case Management Committee
• CSPB Correctional Supervision and Parole Board
• UM Unit Management

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Introduction

• ORP translating the White Paper on Corrections
  into practice.
• Promoting corrections as a societal
  responsibility development of correctional
  centres into institutions of rehabilitation.
• Embedded in mandate of DCS contributing to
  maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful and
  safe society

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What is the ORP?

• Refers to the process of what happens to an
  offender from the point of entry (admission) into
  the correctional centre to the point of
  reintegration into society (social reintegration).

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BREAKING THE CYCLE OF CRIME
UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE
ORP
INCARCERATION
Free
GOOD CITIZEN
Pre Sentence Work
PAROLE
SENTENCE
Parolee
GOOD CITIZEN
NON-CUSTODIAL SENTENCE
Probationer
ORP

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Outlining the ORP

• ADMISSION
• ASSESSMENT/ ORIENTATION/ PROFILING IN
• ASSESSMENT UNIT
• ADMISSION (HOUSING UNIT)
• INTERVENTION (CONTINUOUS)
• MONITORING AND EVALUATION (CONTINUOUS)
• PLACEMENT
• PRE-RELEASE
• PLACEMNET OUT OF THE CORRECTIONAL CENTRE
• ADMISSION OF PROBATIONERS

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ORP The Process

• Admission
• Welcoming (official appointed by Head of
  Correctional Centre)
• Identification capturing of personal detail
  (Head Case Management Administration)

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• Admission risk/needs assessment - immediate
  within 6 hours
• Health status (Health care workers)
• Mental health status re suicide risk
  (psychiatric nurse)
• Suicide risk assessments (Clinical counseling -
  psychologist / psychiatric nurses/
  criminologists/selected personnel/ nurses
  identified trained to do assessments)
• Vulnerability (as above plus social workers/id
  and trained correctional officials)
• Criminological Assessment (Criminologists/
  selected personnel)
• Consolidation of admission risk/needs assessment
  (Head Case mgmt/ selected officials)
• Comprehensive Medical/ Health assessment (Health
  Care Workers)

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• Assessment Unit Assessment / Profiling
• Orientation/ induction of offender - (Head of
  Correctional Centre / Unit Manager assisted by
  officials from Development and Care and
  Corrections)
• Comprehensive risk/needs assessment by CAT
  (Comprehensive Assessment Team coordinator,
  secretariat, officials from corrections,
  reintegration official functionaries from
  Development and Care
• Profiling / analysis of assessment outcomes (
  CAT)
• Classification (CMC)
• Development of correctional sentence plan (CAT)
• Confirmation of classification (CMC)
• Allocation to housing unit/ other correctional
  centre (CMC)

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• 3. Admission (housing unit)
• Induction (UM)
• Allocation of cases to Case Officers (UM)
• Case files to be opened (Case Officers)
• 4. Intervention
• Implementation of structured day programme (Head
  of Correctional Centre, UM programme
  coordinators)
• Implementation of correctional sentence plan (UM,
  CIT, professionals, service providers)
• Compile reports (CIT, professionals, service
  providers, Case Officer)
• Case review (CRT)

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• 5. Monitoring and Evaluation
• Case decision (CMC)
• 6. Placement
• Assessment and recommendations for possible
  placement on parole
• ( CRT)
• CRT to provide recommendations to CMC for
  consideration and submission to CSPB
• CSPB to take decisions on possible placement on
  parole.
• CMC to effect instructions of CSPB and to
  determine pre-release programmes.

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• 7. Pre - release
• Preparation for release and reintegration (CRT)
• 8. Placement out of correctional centre
  (Parolees)
• Pre-Admission
• Communication with Head of Community Corrections
• Escorting
• Handing over
• Admission at community corrections
• identification/verification (Head of Community
  Corrections)
• orientation/induction (admission clerk)
• classification of parolee (Head of Community
  Corrections)
• allocation to correctional supervision (
  Supervision committees)
• management of correctional sentence plan
  (supervision committee)
• Monitoring Evaluation
• Preparation for final release

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• 9. Consideration for alternative sentences
  (Probationers)
• Pre-sentence Work
• Admission directly from courts
• Identification
• Orientation/Induction
• Allocation to agency
• Assessment
• Monitoring Evaluation
• Preparation for complete release
• Termination of sentence

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Benefits

• Assists the offender to adapt to the corrections
  environment and brings together agents that give
  meaning to the six service delivery areas
• ( Security, Facilities, Corrections,
  Development, Care, Social Reintegration)
• Embedded in Unit Management principles
• Underpinned by a multi-disciplinary approach -
  enhance teamwork and unity among correctional
  officials as rehabilitators (custodial
  discipline)
• Creates opportunity for societal involvement in
  rehabilitation of offenders
• Provides a monitoring and evaluation framework
  that will corroborate or refute DCS claim to
  correcting offending behaviour, rehabilitation
  and promoting corrections as a societal
  responsibility

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Progress

• Documentation completed
• Concept document
• Orientation manual
• Assessment and profiling tools
• Correctional Sentence Plan
• Task teams have finalized pro-forma
• Case file
• Structured day programme
• Job Descriptions
• Training schedule

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Progress (cont.)

• Orientation on ORP using the role-play through
  experiential learning (Centres of Excellence, 2
  Private Prisons, SMS, new recruits)
• Video to be used for orientation and training
• Structures for CAT and CIT identified
• Quality Assurance Committees established and
  process is ongoing to ensure the provision of
  programmes by external service providers with the
  aim to build capacity

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Challenges

• Limited resources
• High turnover of scarce skills
• Marketing of new approach to offenders
• Orientation and retraining of all personnel on
  ORP
• Capacity building for monitoring and evaluation
• Strengthening of partnerships to promote
  Corrections as a Societal Responsibility

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Thank you